Re[4]: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-09 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Justin, Friday, January 9, 2004, 11:05:14 AM, you wrote: >> > More importantly, the "learn" tells SA to ignore this score in >> > determining whether to learn this email as spam or ham. Otherwise an >> > email that is spam to everyone else will get learned as ham >> > because of a >> > lar

RE: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-09 Thread Mi
Does anyone else find the 'learn' counter-intuitive? Shouldn't it be 'ignore'? Just my opinion. Don't know about "learn", but "ham" being opposed to "spam" is probably very counter-intuitive for Muslims and Jews :-) --- This SF.net email is

Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-09 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Santerre writes: > > -Original Message- > > From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:40 PM > > To: Steve Thomas > > Cc: John Fleming; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-09 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:40 PM > To: Steve Thomas > Cc: John Fleming; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question > > > Hello Steve, > > Thurs

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Steve, Thursday, January 8, 2004, 11:25:20 AM, you wrote: ST> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:07:59PM -0500, John Fleming is rumored to have said: >> >> I want to specify a text string in the Subject header such that if it >> exists, the msg will NOT be considered spam, no matter what else migh

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Adam D. Lopresto
The [brackets] are the problem, since they create a character class (that is, match anything with a b, or an r, or an a, or... You need to make it /\[text to look for\]/i if your text has [] in it. There are also a few other special characters you'd have to escape if they came up; +*?()[]\/ are t

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:53:53PM -0500, WA9ALS - John is rumored to have said: > > header MY_CUSTOM_RULE Subject =~ /texttolookfor/i (I used the text I > wanted, which included square brackets - Is that a problem? - e.g. [text to > look for]) Square brackets are special characters within a re

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread WA9ALS - John
> In your /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, add this at the bottom: > > header MY_CUSTOM_RULE Subject =~ /texttolookfor/i > describe MY_CUSTOM_RULE My custom subject rule > score MY_CUSTOM_RULE -500 Hi Steve - I thought this was working, but it looks like I'm getting EVERY email scored w

nice list this even to newbies! RE: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Pete Henshall
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David A. Carter Sent: 08 January 2004 19:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question Hi John: > This is my embarrassingly simple first post to this list, but I can't find > the answ

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread David A. Carter
Hi John: > This is my embarrassingly simple first post to this list, but I can't find > the answer. Be gentle with me - answer this and then I'll quietly leave the > list. > Some of us other newbies like the embarrassingly simple questions, otherwise we'd have nothing to respond to! Also, rath

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:25, Steve Thomas wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:07:59PM -0500, John Fleming is rumored to have said: > > > > I want to specify a text string in the Subject header such that if it > > exists, the msg will NOT be con

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread John Fleming
> Be sure to restart spamd (if you use it) after adding/changing things in your local.cf. THANKS to those suggesting a negative score - DUH! I understand why "0" doesn't accomplish anything - don't know why I couldn't see the value in a negative score! (Uh, and thanks for the reminder to restart

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:07:59PM -0500, John Fleming is rumored to have said: > > I want to specify a text string in the Subject header such that if it > exists, the msg will NOT be considered spam, no matter what else might be > wrong with it. In your /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, add this

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Brad Hazledine
How about giving the test a negative score? i.e. -20.0 Brad On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, John Fleming wrote: > > I want to specify a text string in the Subject header such that if it > exists, the msg will NOT be considered spam, no matter what else might be > wrong with it. -

[SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread John Fleming
This is my embarrassingly simple first post to this list, but I can't find the answer. Be gentle with me - answer this and then I'll quietly leave the list. I want to specify a text string in the Subject header such that if it exists, the msg will NOT be considered spam, no matter what else might